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| From | Duha Altindag <daltin2@tigers.lsu.edu> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: pair data to individual data |
| Date | Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:51:39 +0000 |
If the data set you have right now is called master.dta, then the following should give what you want. use master,clear keep famid aid_1 ren aid_1 aid save data1,replace use master,clear keep famid aid_2 ren aid_2 aid append using data1 duplicates drop famid aid,force On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Averett, Susan L <averetts@lafayette.edu> wrote: > > I have a data set that has a family id (famid) and two individual person identifiers for siblings (aid_1 and aid_2) plus some other variables which are not shown. As you can see below the famid column has a family with id 1001 with two siblings, 93710875 97570477. Some families, such as 1011 have more than two sets of siblings. See below: > > +-----------------------------+ > | famid aid_1 aid_2 | > |-----------------------------| > 1. | 1001 93710875 97570477 | > 2. | 1002 93576557 97506154 | > 3. | 1003 96717912 96717917 | > 4. | 1004 91656927 97676522 | > 5. | 1005 91588998 93578896 | > |-----------------------------| > 6. | 1006 90718946 91588942 | > 7. | 1007 99578364 99578369 | > 8. | 1008 91576326 98576229 | > 9. | 1009 93506890 93506897 | > 10. | 1010 92544209 96884901 | > |-----------------------------| > 11. | 1011 93504422 99574220 | > 12. | 1011 93504422 99574221 | > 13. | 1011 99574220 99574221 | > 14. | 1012 90571316 91571911 | > 15. | 1013 91576322 91576325 | > |-----------------------------| > 16. | 1014 90716062 91886961 | > 17. | 1015 91540352 91540358 | > 18. | 1016 94718146 98578449 | > 19. | 1017 97575250 97575258 | > 20. | 1018 91885961 94575866 | > +-----------------------------+ > > Somehow I need to make this look like: > > famid aid > 1001 93710875 > 1001 97570477 > > etc... > > Any ideas? I've been messing with this for awhile but to no avail. > Thanks! > > Susan Averett > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/